Tag Archives: Therapeutic Discovery Project

Here’s what the Biotechnology Industry Organization is doing for you. This year, we challenged you to answer the question – What’s Your BIO? On behalf of the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), I’d like to answer that question to illustrate how we advocate for federal, state and global policies to foster continued biotech breakthroughs, innovation and ingenuity. In addition to producing the BIO International Convention, we educate and engage public policy leaders in Washington, in state Read More >

Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), at the March 6th Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs hearing, emphasizes the effectiveness of the 2010 Therapeutic Discovery Project, the need to extend the program, and asks William Waddill, CFO/SVP of OncoMed Pharmaceuticals to share his company’s success story as a result of receiving an award. Read testimony from Waddill on the importance of capital formation.

Here are the results from our recent analysis of the Therapeutic Discovery Project. (For additional background and links on the TDP, please see our previous post from Nov 3rd, 2010.) The 4,606 projects that were awarded a TDP grant or credit went to 2,923 companies in 47 states. That averages to 1.6 projects per company. A more detailed analysis reveals that the majority (72%) of the companies received one project credit or grant, and 28% Read More >

This morning, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the awardees of the Therapeutic Discovery Project (TDP). We are running a few analytics on the recipient list and posting them here, along with links to relevant articles/blogs. Here is a primer: 5600 projects were submitted by ~3000 companies The maximum amount a project received was $244,479 78% of projects received the maximum amount Average project award was $217,108 72% of the Read More >